The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude. ✨ Thomas Merton (1…

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The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude. ✨ Thomas Merton (1996). Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer, Harper San Francisco
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A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.99, Macmillan
Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.128, Image
....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their mean … ▶
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living. ✨ Thomas Merton (2015). Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation, p.8, … ▶
In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, … ▶

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude. ✨ Thomas Merton (1996). Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer, Harper San Francisco

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